Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"

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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Totally Thoughtless Thursday

My recovery week is going great - thanks for asking. I have been able to walk a dog and cook a meal. Always good for everyone.

EVERYONE should watch Food Inc. I think it will force you to make some different decisions you may not have thought about before. It might revolutionize the way and what you eat or you may just take baby steps. Either way. The notion of eating REAL honest to goodness food. Comcast has it On Demand for $4.99 or you can buy it on Amazon thru Friday for $9.99. A must watch.

I make a deal with the devil AKA my alarm clock every, single morning. I never get up when I set it, just at the last possible second before I have to get up to workout or get to work. WHY? I doze off but it's not like I'm getting good sleep in those 2-3 times I hit the snooze.

We are getting ready for the deep freeze here in the South. Hurry, better get to the grocery and buy all the milk and bread you can get your hands on. I swear, the forecasters are in bed with the grocery stores around here and like to cause a panic. I know, I know, caution, Kentucky was SOL last year when the power was out for weeks.

Coffee and poop, the two things I must have or do to get each day started. Otherwise, migraine and constipation ensue.

I never watch the TV news anymore. Once it was pointed out to me that most of the broadcasts opened with some variant of "It's new, it's terrifying, you and your children will be raped to death or worse, you never imagined anyone could be so diabolical, they are lurking in the shrubbery waiting for you, there's nothing you can do about it but write to your congresscritter and then cower in terror in your basement, they hate us because we voted for Dubya, the government is coming to steal your money, guns, and wimmen, THE THREAT LEVEL IS MAGENTA PINK!!!!!!". Or something like that. Bah! I say bah!

People and their alarm clocks. I don't get it. Really. After I wrote this I realized it turned into a rant. Enjoy.

Everybody needs a certain amount of time to go from being asleep, to arriving at the first obligation for the day, which might be dropping kids at daycare before a certain time, or getting to work, or beating the daily 7am collision on the freeway. Adults will know how long it takes to get through their various rituals. If they don't know, then they're still teenagers in the head. Sorry to be so blunt.

Figure out how much time you need. I mean figure out what it really is on a day to day basis with no particular optimism that you can reliably do it in half the time it normally takes. Set the clock for the time that gives you that amount of time.

Then get out of bed when it goes off. Near as I can tell, that seems to be the hard part. If you're still really asleep, good for you, but maybe you need to start going to bed earlier. If you're sort of awake, lying there in a heap like a possum whapped with a frozen cod, stop being such a pussy and get up. Do something important, like reading your friend's blogs, or writing your own. Get going on the coffee if that's what it takes. Get started a few minutes early for once.

My theory of going places is that if you start off in good time, then you'll catch the lights, the idiots will be late for screwing you up, the roads will be good, there won't be a line up at the store where you get the paper and a coffee refill, your regular parking lot won't be full, you'll get a seat on the train, and you'll probably get there a few minutes early. Bonus! Start late and you're screwed. The day you need a good commute everything will go wrong.

So suck it up people. The problem isn't your alarm clock. The problem is you. Get a dose of reality. If you need more sleep, cut out the coffee in the afternoon, and go to bed earlier. If you really need 2 hours in the morning to put yourself together, then plan your life so you have 2 hours in the morning. If there aren't enough minutes, then cut some shit out. I'd start with the TV news and if that's not enough then progress to TV in general.

There now, I hope you enjoyed the rant. I'm speaking generally here, not pointing the finger at Missy in particular, who writes a dayum fine blog, and has more grit and determination than I do.

I don't know whether to comment on you your post or Keith's comment...On the sleep thing...I still hear my Marine Drill Instructors...that was 20 freaking years ago...so I usually beat the alarm up...and for Luke...I turn his lights on...don't say a word and he is dressed in less than 2 minutes...isn't that the most important part for a budding triathlete?

I had a big bag of Cheetos on the way home yesterday, though. You are what you eat, and there is a picture of a cheetah on the bag... so I will run faster, right? (I hope they are in the approved food group....)

Food Inc. - If heard great things about it, but frankly I'm afraid. Afraid I wont be able to eat hamburgers - just like Chloe said. You've convinced me though. I love eating, but I also love feuling with goodness. I'll watch it. I promise.

Gov't mule - I listed to them. I like it. Kind of grateful dead/skynard. Much better way to spend the evening than listening to the *other* Government mule :O

The media is all in bed with some lobby group. Things become news because someone is paying for it to be.

I snooze my alarm clock too...it's not that I want more sleep, that just happens. It's just too comfortable in bed and I want to savor that warmth and peace for a few more minutes...and then a few more...and then a few more!

your posts never cease to make me laugh! Ahh, the morming thingy! I run at 5AM on Thursday, I wake up half way through the night and always manage to convivce my self maybe I dont feel well so I can stay in bed! Never works though! You bwere right a couple of months back, MORNINGS SUCK! thank god for coffee and poop! Cheers

Hi, this is Linda, Keith's wife. Responding to Beth, YES you can cook without using processed foods. It is called 'from scratch'. Our ancestors did it all the time, not having grocery stores & so it can't be that hard, or none of us would be here now. That having been said, not all processed foods are 'bad'. Read the labels, law states they have to say what is in there & it is listed in order of amount, so the first ingredient is the biggest amount. If you need a degree in chemistry to understand the items listed, pass on it. Or if it just squicks you out. Processed meat parts, no listing of what, is something you should avoid:) Or anything that sounds like fake food type goo. Cool Whip is an excellent example of food goo, which incidentally gives me the trots if I eat more than a mouthful, so I avoid it, trots not being something I enjoy much. Keep in mind that cooking your food means you are processing it, which is why I say not all processed food is bad. So just stay calm, read the labels & if you get scared, remember you ate all this stuff without knowing what was in it & are still here - now you are making choices based on knowledge & thus can feel better about it.

I haven't eaten anything that remotely resembles fast food since reading Fast Food Nation a few years ago. My daughter started calling it the "evil book" because once I read it, no more Happy Meals and no more Little PIece of Shit (LPS) plastic crap-toys. I haven't seen Food Inc yet, I'm thinking it's about time for another family upheaval. I also won't let my kids watch the local news since I figure it's about the most violent and sex filled show on TV. They can watch HBO, sure...that's just make believe, but local news? NO WAY...

I don't set an alarm clock. My bladder is my alarm clock, goes off every morning at 6am, whether I want it to or not. Once I'm up and I've pee'd, I'm up...then C&P.

Not quite as long as Keith's rant. What did you say to all of us today anyway? OMFG...Keith just KILLS ME. Did he have too much coffee this am? or tea? or Beth?

I love when a blog post ends with poop talk. A friend of mine doesn't understand that we all talk about poop like it's putting our feet up - she was quite annoyed that I mentioned my prp the other day. GOOOOOOOOOO POO!

Food Inc. has stirred lots of thoughts among people. Nothing, that we really didn't already know-deep down. We all need to just plow our own land I guess and raise our own food like our ancestors!Coffee and poop!!!! For me it's Diet Dew and poop-then my day is complete!

Didn't see the movie I'm trying to just stay away from foods with things in the labels that I can't pronounce. And things that are chemically altered to fool you (Nutrasweet, Spenda, HFCS). I got that from Jillian Michael's book Master your Metabolism. Don't know how much truth to the book there is but it felt ok to drink the kool-aid.

Food Inc is a good movies, but an even better one is The Future of Food...big bad Monsanto is featured heavily in it, and its even scarier than Food Inc (and you can watch hours of video from good sources in their extras reel)...Thanks for posting.

Thanks for mentioning Food Inc. We watched it last night. Nothing we didn't know along the way, but it was a bit horrifying to see it all put together like that. I have to admit I was a bit, well a lot, really, to see Walmart in the role of the good guy. That guy might be happy they're on board, but Walmart's entire story is about squeezing costs, or passing them along to their producers.

I saw that movie this summer and loved it. Very eye opening and it makes me not trust ANYONE, especially big business and the government, which is actually one in the same. Anyway, it is very inspiring until you realize how expensive big business has made it for us to make healthful choices. Rude!

IronMissy - it's official!

Enough about me, what do you think about me?

I'm not really great at swimming, biking or running...I'm just OK at all three! Hell, I pretty much just ride for fun and run for the company any more. I have dogs instead of kids and think that all my friends WITH kids are saints. I write as though I'm talking so forgive my "proper" use of grammar.